A year of poetry?
Is it possible for me to publish every day? Is it for you?
On 1 September 2018, I set myself a goal to publish a poem a day on Medium and Twitter. For that purpose I created this very publication, 365 Days Of Poetry, safely assuming I wouldn’t be able to place my poetry daily in Medium’s literary publications.
For the first four months, I was showing up religiously every day. At the beginning I was publishing only here but after a couple of months, I realized I would reach more readers if I showcased my work in such publications as LitUp, Literally Literary, Chalkboard, Haiku Hub, House of Haiku and Vagabond Voices, so I wrote for them as well, taking part in poetry challenges and responding to prompts.
But then, in January 2019, my world turned upside down, I moved countries and my daily routine went through the roof. For the next seven months, I would have had more important things to tend to than writing poems.
But I still wrote — poetry, short stories, microfiction — and I still published but I didn’t care about the schedule anymore. Sometimes I felt guilty — at the end of the day, I promised I would show up every day for a year. I felt accountable. But it really didn’t matter at that point.
